Motivational Quotes

Action

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

- Mckain, Robert J.

Best Quotes about Action

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony